V. I. Lenin

1897

The tsarist government issues an order exiling Lenin to
East Siberia under police surveillance for three years.

February 13 (25)

Lenin is informed of his sentence to exile in East
Siberia.

February 14 (26)

Lenin is released from remand imprisonment and allowed
to remain in St. Petersburg until the evening of February 17 (March 1).

February 14-17 (February 26-March
1)

Lenin has a meeting in St. Petersburg with the other
“old” League of Struggle members who have been released
before being sent into exile and with “young” members. At
a meeting of “old” and “young” League members
Lenin severely criticises the “economism” trend that is
beginning to appear among the “young” members.

February 17 (March 1)

Lenin leaves St. Petersburg for exile in Siberia via
Moscow.

February 18-22 (March 2-6)

On his way to exile a halt is made In Moscow, where
Lenin has permission to stay for a while with his mother. He stays two
days longer than allowed by the police.

February 22 (March 6)

Lenin leaves Moscow for Siberia, where he is to live in
exile.

March 4 (16)

Lenin arrives in Krasnoyarsk.

March 9-April 30 (March 21-May
12)

While in Krasnoyarsk Lenin studies problems relating to
Russia's economic development, using for this purpose books in the
private library of G. V. Yudin, a local merchant.

April-July

Lenin's Characterisation of Economic
Romanticism is published in Novoye Slovo, issues 7-10.

April 30 (May 12)

Lenin leaves Krasnoyarsk via Minusinsk for the village
of Shushenskoye, the place to which he has been exiled.

May 6 (18)

Lenin arrives in Minusinsk.

May 8 (20)

Lenin arrives in the village of Shushenskoye, Minusinsk
Province, Yenisei Gubernia.

Summer and autumn

Lenin writes his pamphlet The New Factory Law
autumn and the appendix to it.

September 27-28 (October 9-10)

Lenin travels to Minusinsk, where he makes the
acquaintance of exiled members of the Narodnaya Volya and Narodnoye
Pravo organisations.

September 29-October 4 (October
11-16)

From Minusinsk Lenin arrives in the village of
Tesinskoye, where he spends five days among exiled Social-Democrats.

Lenin writes the pamphlet The Tasks of the Russian
Social-Democrats and the articles “The Handicraft Census
of 1894-95 in Perm Gubernia and General Problems of 'Handicraft'
Industry," “Gems of Narodnik Project-Mongering," and
“The Heritage We Renounce."

1897

-- While in exile, Lenin maintains contact with the
leading bodies of the working-class movement in Russia and with the
Emancipation of Labour group abroad, and also corresponds with
Social-Democrats in other places of exile; he continues preparations
for his book The Development of Capitalism in Russia.
-- Lenin gives legal advice to the peasants of Shushenskoye
village and the surrounding region, and enjoys great prestige among
them.